An expedition to my college

Journal assigned by teacher, and I am happly to share with you:
Welcomed by stretches of wild grass inhabited in most accessible area in college after entering the main gate, I had no feeling of discovering a new land as some predecessors had told me. Well, this ‘natural park’ will be my stage to the world.

One of many ponds in our school, but they are still wild……

Despite the hardships placed upon freshmen during the military training, I found college life indeed colorful and challenging. First of all, all sorts of groups, from basketball to badminton, from rondo to yoga, are up to you to select. You can, as long as you are energetic enough sign in as many groups as you wish. What’s more, they are all in sovereignty of us students, free from those ancient and officious advisors. Secondly, a stadium equipped with all the facilities you can imagine also provides you with all the closed comforts and they are open to public with no fee at all. However, life here won’t be so easy, problems in different aspects confront us, sometimes to our greet surprise. We have no choice but to get accustomed to the terrible meals offered in our dinning hall, which I believe will develop my endurance to a large extent in the following four years; we are faced with the difficulties completing basic activities in daily life such as bathing and washing clothes, for our dormitories are not supplied with hot water, even in frozen winter in Wuhan.

A sign by a pond where natrual life has been perfectly preserved; I mean you can find lots of wild grass and animal there……

With the study in college, I shall put it ‘a gradual process of finding a titanic set of dinosaur fossils. I’ll take lessons of my major for instance. You suppose computer lessons easy at first; slowly C programming approaches; than Java and so on; they are just a close family that undoable frustrate those who are unfamiliar with anyone in the huge family. ‘Challenging’, that’s a respectable student will remark on the new life in any college.

As far as the lectures are concerned, they are all given by a group of teachers with uncertainties. You may be lucky enough to meet a competent teacher who loves his career and students an invent ways to lead you in his lessons; or you shall doze off during the classes that are prepared by a teacher using PPTs with a history of five years or more. However, college lessons call for tremendous self-commitments – good instructors won’t be everything.

Finally I wouldn’t be forced to illustrate my life in spare time. Library is, of course, one of the most heated places in the campus after class: some go there for reading; some for learning; some for sleeping a quiet place; and some for being with his or her lover (although I think it’s not an ideal place for such activity) Playground ranks second on the list and the street near our campus third. The street is specially called ‘Fallen Street’, for there is bewilderment of entertainment such as night bars, net bars, hotels, restaurant, too much for a college student whose main task is to study. I had been there twice for shopping and eating and it impressed me as crowded and unpleasant.

This is one of many paintings on the wall beside the Fallen Street, quite common in other universities though.

One month is long enough for a traveler to explore a country but not for a student to explore his campus. Let’s embrace more of this brand new college.